?Sticky places in slippery space? is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The ?slippery space? is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The ?sticky places? ...

This paper estimates concentration in Irish manufacturing industry (1991-2001) by
applying the McCloughan and Abounoori technique for calculating the concentration ratio given grouped data. The results suggest high aggregate ...

In this paper a model of dynamic factor demands is presented for the Irish economy.
Total costs, labour and capital are modelled on a two-stage basis. First, a static, long-run cost function is specified which allows for ...

In this note we map the Irish policy space, locating both voters and parties on the most
salient policy dimensions in Ireland. Estimates of the voter locations are based on the Irish National Election Survey (INES), ...

This paper illustrates the impact on Irish inflation of including a house-price series with the current components of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP). We construct a dynamic factor index of inflation that ...